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Of this plant I have seen no specimens, but Mr. Baker has 
examined those in Mr. Winch’s collection at Newcastle, and con- 
siders them quite distinct from KR. spinosissima, receding from it in 
the direction of R. alpina. Similar plants are found on the Swiss 
Alps, which are considered by M. Reuter as hybrids between these 
two species: possibly there may have been some mistake about the 
locality of Mr. Winch’s specimens; as all the other British speci- 
mens supposed to belong to R. rubella belong to R. spinosissima. 
fted-fruited Burnet Rose. 
SPECIES IIL—ROSA HIBERNICA. Sm. 
Puate CCCCLXIII. 
Baker, in Nat. 1864, p. 22. 
Prickles scattered, rather few and slender, straight or curved, 
unequal, passing gradually into aciculi and few gland-tipped sete. 
Leaflets oval, acutely and nearly equally serrate, glabrous on both 
sides, or with the principal veins hairy beneath, serratures occa- 
sionally gland-tipped. Pedicels solitary or several together, with 
bracts when more than one, glabrous. Fruit erect, urceolate sub- 
globose, glabrous, red. Sepals persistent, leaf-pointed, frequently 
slightly pinnatifid, without gland-tipped setze on the back. 
Mr. Baker distinguishes the following forms :— 
1. Rosa eu-hibernica. Baker, 1. c. p. 24. 
Peduncles naked. Petioles hairy. Leaves hairy beneath. 
Vale of Lorton, Cumberland; near Belfast, and County Down ? 
2. Rosa glabra. Baker, |. c. p. 24. 
Peduncles naked. TPetioles and leaves hairless. 
Yorkshire, Cheshire, and Surrey. 
3. Rosa cordifolia. Baker, 1. c. p. 24. 
Peduncles with aciculi and gland-tipped sets. Leaflets broader, 
more bluntly serrate, hairy beneath, those of the barren shoots 
subcordate at the base. Peduncles hairy. 
Dale of the Coquet, Northumberland, found by Professor 
Oliver. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 
A doubtful plant, intermediate between R. spinosissima and 
R. Sabini, resembling tlie former in the shape and serration of the 
leaflets, the latter in general habit, the prickles, the flowers not 
